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Being diagnosed with a brain tumour was the best day of my life. Here’s how it let me help others
Timothy Samples, pictured with wife Michelle, suffered seizures, a brain injury and a brain tumour
Timothy Samples

Being diagnosed with a brain tumour was the best day of my life. Here’s how it let me help others

Seizures, tumours and a brain injury forced Timothy Samples to give up on his dream of being a counsellor. But now he’s using his life experience to give others in the same position hope for the future
Letters: Covid was a chance to reset. So why are we still working until we drop?
Letters

Letters: Covid was a chance to reset. So why are we still working until we drop?

DWP payment dates in April 2025: When you will get your benefits this month
money
Benefits

DWP payment dates in April 2025: When you will get your benefits this month

DWP 'work coach shortage' could undermine Labour's bid to help disabled people into work
Department for Work and Pensions

DWP 'work coach shortage' could undermine Labour's bid to help disabled people into work

DWP figures show two in five single parents are living in poverty: 'It's a terrible situation'
Ruth Talbot

DWP figures show two in five single parents are living in poverty: 'It's a terrible situation'

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Food banks aren’t the solution to poverty – especially when businesses use them to dump food waste
Man looking through food bank basked
Carina Millstone

Food banks aren’t the solution to poverty – especially when businesses use them to dump food waste

Covid exposed the brutal realities of UK health inequality – has anything really changed?
Two people in vests work on the Covid memorial wall
Five years since the pandemic

Covid exposed the brutal realities of UK health inequality – has anything really changed?

Child poverty hits new record high – before Labour benefit cuts will push 50,000 more into hardship
child poverty taskforce
Child poverty

Child poverty hits new record high – before Labour benefit cuts will push 50,000 more into hardship

Chav Solidarity author D Hunter: 'My violent childhood left me without role models for parenting'
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Chav Solidarity author D Hunter: 'My violent childhood left me without role models for parenting'

250,000 people will be plunged into poverty by benefit cuts, DWP analysis reveals
People protesting against the disability benefit cuts in Westminster.
Disability benefits

250,000 people will be plunged into poverty by benefit cuts, DWP analysis reveals

'Welfare not warfare': Disabled people hold Downing Street protest over Spring Statement benefit cuts
Disabled people protest benefits cuts at Downing Street ahead of the Spring Statement
Spring Statement

'Welfare not warfare': Disabled people hold Downing Street protest over Spring Statement benefit cuts

Benefit cuts and big housebuilding promises: What Rachel Reeves' Spring Statement means for you
Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivers her spring statement to parliament
Spring Statement

Benefit cuts and big housebuilding promises: What Rachel Reeves' Spring Statement means for you

'People are scared': Surge in helpline calls after Labour announces plans for benefit cuts
a person looking scared on a phone call
Disability benefits

'People are scared': Surge in helpline calls after Labour announces plans for benefit cuts

It's 15 years since the UK government promised to end child poverty. Time to revive that ambition
A child eating
Alex Firth

It's 15 years since the UK government promised to end child poverty. Time to revive that ambition

We must learn from Covid and ensure that disabled people are never again neglected
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Mikey Erhardt

We must learn from Covid and ensure that disabled people are never again neglected

'It worries me it could happen again': How Covid turned life upside down for children and young people
Text reads: Coronavirus. Stay at home, Protect the NHS, Save Lives
Dr Alison Penny

'It worries me it could happen again': How Covid turned life upside down for children and young people

'Frustrated, angry, exhausted': Food banks forced to 'throw out food donated by supermarkets'
Food bank shelves
Food banks

'Frustrated, angry, exhausted': Food banks forced to 'throw out food donated by supermarkets'

We all clapped for the NHS during the Covid pandemic. Did it actually do... anything?
Healthcare workers march through London during the pandemic. Image: Unsplash
Five years since the pandemic

We all clapped for the NHS during the Covid pandemic. Did it actually do... anything?

Labour's benefits cuts are short-sighted, whatever way you look at it
keir starmer
Paul McNamee

Labour's benefits cuts are short-sighted, whatever way you look at it

Adolescence is a powerful wake-up call about what's happening to our sons online
Holly Green, Dr Daniel Guinness

Adolescence is a powerful wake-up call about what's happening to our sons online

Labour's rushed cuts to benefits will see severely disabled people plunged into deep poverty
liz kendall
Anela Anwar

Labour's rushed cuts to benefits will see severely disabled people plunged into deep poverty

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Poor women without education least likely to recover from effects of Covid, study finds
Five years since the pandemic

Poor women without education least likely to recover from effects of Covid, study finds

Here's how to make your voice heard against the DWP's disability benefit cuts
a disability rights poster
Disability benefits

Here's how to make your voice heard against the DWP's disability benefit cuts

Victorian illnesses like rickets are on the rise. We need radical change to end malnutrition
Lynn Perry

Victorian illnesses like rickets are on the rise. We need radical change to end malnutrition

UK loses £118bn a year to poor mental health. Cutting benefits is not the answer
Liz Kendall, the work and pensions secretary.
Oliver Chantler

UK loses £118bn a year to poor mental health. Cutting benefits is not the answer

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